I also have reservations about your quote when you said that "software industry and engineering service industry is the only industry which has not spread its wing to other parts of the state. Otherwise we are equal in developments in geographical division". No way.

It is like saying Person A has a huge villa, huge bank balance, no debt, a business to run plus 2-3 working family members is =
Neighbour B with 2 working family members but no huge bank balance and with say house debt = Neighbour C with no debt and a job. See the logic? You are oversimplifying by equating Person A (chennai) who possesses everything with Person B and C who has few things that A has and saying that all three neighbours are equal. Of-course there are person D's in our society too who has nothing

I agree, there may be error in my analysis. But my point was to prove that the not only the so called Chennai gvt alone developing! other part also developing and gvt is spening money in every part of the state (udaney CG fund nu sollathinga)

I didn't equate A=B=C=D, my analysis was to show Chennai has A+B+C+D category of people, so does the Kannyakumari has A+B+C+D section of people.

If we take a survey, we will come to know who spend lot of money for gold in TN for marriage, it would be Tirunelveli, Tuticorin, Kumari and Virudhunagar district, if these dt are under developed where many people get money for giving KG of golds for marriages? anyone from nellai and tuticorin will surely acknowledge my point!

And you talked about oppurtunity, yes we dont have it.. you and me or many in this forum in their home towns, but does it mean the 10lakhs graduates coming from colleges in different fields like arts, science, commerce, economics, mbbs, engineering etc., dont hav oppurtunity in their districts itself? then you are wrong! the oppurtunity for engineering graduates and mba's in reputed col don't have in their home town.. they have to or forced to migrate to chennai/bengaluru etc., I see in-equality exists here only and not in every field of economics. Even in civil engineering, many tends to settle in their home town because they create their own business and make good profit out of it!

Not that his number crunching is wrong or anything against Arul. Let me begin with this note I strongly disagree with his analysis :-)

It is like saying Person A has a huge villa, huge bank balance, no debt, a business to run plus 2-3 working family members is =
Neighbour B with 2 working family members but no huge bank balance and with say house debt = Neighbour C with no debt and a job. See the logic? You are oversimplifying by equating Person A (chennai) who possesses everything with Person B and C who has few things that A has and saying that all three neighbours are equal. Of-course there are person D's in our society too who has nothing

Hi i agree with your points. I also had a doubt this GDP and Per capita income is not the correct way of determining employment opportunities or development. That is why, I had mentioned before that we need to analyse in detail the workings before arriving at judgement by just calculating PCI.

For eg, there could be a big industry mostly automated and less labour intensive in a district. It may be big invesmtent and increase the GDP of that dist substantially but sadly it may hardly have given employment opportunities. This is an example. Again I am saying the same, we need to do into depth before concluding KK and virudhunagar are more developed or standard of living is better than Madras dist because of higher PCI

I am very happy to see this thread becomes Analytical & Enlightening one.

Successive arguments forced me to search & dig more information.

Wellness of an area is not related to its GDP. It is actually how much possible consumption per person of that area. For e.g. in an area there may not be any industries. But they may have good amount of money to spend due near kith and kins remittance from out side. So in academic area, they consider Actual Individual Consumption (AIC) instead of GDP.
In the post 8815 of kongutamizhan, speak more or less about it.

It is somewhere wrong ,when you consider GDP in district level.Foreign remittance comes under NDP (net domestic product).
GDP of a region gives the gross value of output from industries and services etc. and not the cumulative value of individual salaries. And when it is divided by population irrespective of whether they work or not,you get per capita income.If you employ low wage workers for high value products per capita income will be high though the individual income is less.

To understand the real development in very low level we need more break up of data.Some one can subscribe to Economic Intelligence service by Center for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) and post some statistics in this forum.
There are various data from Excise department.Excise revenue and service tax collected for each region is available from government websites.
Since many of our members analyze very deeply,they can collect these details for better analysis instead of using vague GDP figures.

How the per-capita income is calculated. We (working in a IT / Private limited companies) are paying the tax and hence the govt knows about income & per-capita. If businessmen doesn't pay their taxes properly, How accurate will it be?

So showing their business capacity and the paying the proper tax will increase the Per-capita of a dt right?

If that is the case, there is no doubt that chennai / Bangalore / where ever limited companies presence is high rather than high-voltage small-scale business will have a high per-capita income?

__________________If you really think the environment is less important than the economy
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Per capita = Total income of the region of your interest / Total population of the region

And you are correct, GDP doesn't take black money or parellel economy in to consideration. So if businessmen doesn't report properly that is black money which is not accounted for in per capita calculations

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Per capita = Total income of the region of your interest / Total population of the region

And you are correct, GDP doesn't take black money or parellel economy in to consideration. So if businessmen doesn't report properly that is black money which is not accounted for in per capita calculations

KT - Thanks for clarification.

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- Madurai airport was established in 1957
- Runway extended to 12,500 ft
- Customs set up at the airport has been approved by the Finance Ministry
- Request for Immigration set up has been made to SG
- Srilankan airlines have already visited IXM
- Air Asia has expressed desire to start Kuala Lumpur - Malyasia sector-
- Once the immigrations facilities are done, international flights can start from the next day!!!

- Madurai airport was established in 1957
- Runway extended to 12,500 ft
- Customs set up at the airport has been approved by the Finance Ministry
- Request for Immigration set up has been made to SG
- Srilankan airlines have already visited IXM
- Air Asia has expressed desire to start Kuala Lumpur - Malyasia sector-
- Once the immigrations facilities are done, international flights can start from the next day!!!

nobody asked you to respond or discuss. U on your own responded and got

Great one!

Ananth,I really became fan of your posts!!!

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Translation : Collector Sahayam has made an initiative to improve the income of the Farmers by opening the "uzhavar unavagam" in Madurai for helping the Farmers learn the art of making biscuits and flour from their harvested crops like millet, barley. This is the second one in T.N after Namakkal by our Collector Sahayam.

Madurai Corporation has embarked on the task of desilting all the 11 drainage channels criss-crossing the city ahead of the southwest monsoon. The work that began a couple of days back is scheduled to be completed by August 20.

After inspecting the work in Kiruthumal Nadi, Corporation Commissioner S. Natarajan said that the channels, silted up with sludge and wild growth over the years, would be cleaned for a length of over 51 km at a cost of Rs. 25 lakh. “It will help the rain water have a free flow without inundating the residential areas in the city during the monsoon. Besides, the tanks would also get filled up. The most beneficial aspect would be that the sewage-stagnant drainages will not be a breeding ground for mosquitoes,” he said.

Senior officials in the Corporation have been assigned the task of supervising the work and they would submit reports every day. While the deep sludge would be removed using machinery, men would be involved in clearing minor obstructions and clear the channels of plastic waste, he added. The officials have been asked to focus on removing the obstacles under the bridges and culverts.

Mr. Natarajan said that these works of removal of wild growth, desilting and cutting of channels were part of the contracts awarded to the contractors engaged in providing concrete lining of the channels under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission. “The construction works have been suspended owing to lack of funds. But, these works have to be carried out in the interest of the residents of the city. We are spending money from the Corporation's general fund. The expenditure incurred on these works will be duly deducted from the contractors,” the Commissioner said.

The channels that would be desilted are Pandulgudi, Managiri, Bibikulam, Kosakulam, Panaiyur, Anuppanadi, Chintamani, Sottathatti, Kiruthumal and Avaniapuram.

Mr. Natarajan said that the silt collected from the channels would be safely disposed of at the Corporation dumping yard at Vellaikkal.

The government is all set to revise the guideline value of land to set right the anomalies in the registration of documents and to narrow down the difference in the market and guideline value of the properties across the State.

Addressing a review meeting of Madurai and Tirunelveli Zone Collectors and Registration Department officials here on Saturday, Inspector General of Registration Dharmendra Pratap Yadav instructed officials to complete field inspections and submit their recommendations for the revision of guideline value of land before October 31.

Only after Special Deputy Collector (Stamps) is consulted on the guideline value, will the registrations be done hereafter, he said.

Land value differences that are there would be streamlined under a broad classification and all the guidelines would be brought under it.

Mr. Yadav opined that all the anomalies could be settled with this new approach. Land will be registered only under the existing guideline value, whatever it is. Efforts like these would help to stabilise land prices.

Officials have to inspect all classification of land across the State to fix the guideline value. Registration of lands would become easier and simple only if the correct guideline value was available to the people, he noted.

When lands are registered according to their correct values, local bodies would also earn more revenue, he added.

Due to undue speculation, agricultural lands have been turned into housing sites and lay unproductive for years.

He also asked the Collectors to conduct review meetings with regard to registration as it not only brings more revenue to the government but also creates a lot of problems to the people if the documents are not registered properly. He also asked the Registration department officials to ensure that no dual values are fixed. Only street rates should be used in urban areas. “Let there be no survey numbers,” he said.

Mr. Yadav said that dual guideline values need to be eliminated. In Chennai and other major cities, this has been a persisting problem. Artificiality is there in land prices which needs to be checked thoroughly.

Speaking to the reporters, Mr. Yadav said that the officers should make appropriate proposals to the district committees to increase or decrease the guideline value if there are discrepancies.

The revised guideline value, once notified, should be widely publicised. The Inspector General appealed to the officers to extend their full cooperation to the exercise.

The Government Rajaji Hospital (GRH), a major healthcare facility in south Tamil Nadu has been facing a shortage of stretchers and wheelchairs. To overcome the shortage, the hospital authorities have taken steps to get sufficient number of stretchers/wheelchairs for the benefit of patients.

Last week, relatives of some patients had complained that there was a shortage of both stretchers and wheelchairs, and that one stretcher was used to carry more than one or two patients.

A. Prahadeeswaran, Resident Medical Officer, told The Hindu on Thursday that steps had been taken to purchase more stretchers and wheelchairs immediately. “Only a month ago, we bought 20 stretchers and 10 wheelchairs and supplied them to the wards. We have asked for more and they would be procured soon,” he said.

The list of requirements was given to the hospital's new Medical Superintendent in-charge V. Ramanujam a few days ago. He assured to sanction them quickly.

The nursing superintendents of various wards have brought to the RMO's attention of the need for more stretchers and wheelchairs. “We can purchase them from the local funds itself which are meant for hospital maintenance. We shall be getting them at the earliest,” Dr. Prahadeeswaran said.

General surgery, accident emergency, head injury and gynaecology are the wards that need more stretchers and wheelchairs owing to the large volume of cases and the urgency with which they are to be attended to.

Another senior administration official said that recently 20 stretchers were bought through tender at a cost of Rs.15,500 each. Ten wheelchairs were purchased at Rs.11,000 each.

He justified the practice of taking two patients on a single stretcher. “Patients in the same ward may have to be taken for a scan or x-ray from the ward. So, we take them at a time and hence people should not find fault with that,” the official said.

According to hospital authorities, the old stretchers and wheelchairs which were damaged and could not be used had been sent for repairs. The in-patient strength runs to thousands a day

There is a surge in real estate activity in the temple town and more and more people consider it safer to invest in houses

“Be a proud owner of a plot just at the rate of a cent of land.” “Flats with all facilities are for sale. Only a few are left. What are you waiting for? Hurry up.” Posters and billboards scream from various vantage points in Madurai, desperately trying to catch the attention of people.

Clearly, the spiralling cost of construction and rising interest rates on housing loans seem to have had little impact on the mushrooming property developers and land promoters in the city. Experts say this should not be taken for a boom in the real-estate sector, but there is certainly a surge in buying and selling of land or flats.

“The market is volatile. It is difficult to predict. The increase in prices of building material beyond expected lines and labour costs make life difficult for the property developers. They cannot plan. Each month there is a 3-4 percent increase in costs,” says A. Chandramouli, vice-president, Confederation of Real Estate Developers' Associations of India (CREDAI), Madurai Chapter.

With banks hiking housing loan interest rates, customers are already feeling the pinch as it has brought down their eligibility for a loan. Still, one can find crowds waiting for hours at registration offices to get their properties registered, which only indicates that real estate has evolved as a prospective investment option.

“No doubt it turns out to be the best form of investment at present. With gold prices escalating and stock markets crashing, investing in land or a house seems to be a prudent option,” says Arun Vijaay Malli, one of the directors of Sathyasree Developers Private Limited.

“The concept of group housing is also gaining momentum with land prices on the upward swing. Investing in apartments is seen as a safe option. Compared to other tier-II cities there is not much business activity here, but the city has a huge potential,” he adds.

“Once, people dreamt of owning a house. But now they have gone beyond that. With well-employed children earning in lakhs, many parents think investing in flats is a better proposition for the future of the younger generations,” feels G. Selvakumar, a businessman.

There are also people showing keen interest in vacant plots which has tremendous potential for development. Cashing in on the enthusiasm, land promoters are trying their level best to woo the new crop of customers by making attractive offers. Most land promoters arrange for a free visit to their site which is always a few kilometres away from the city. They cite the distance from the city as an opportunity to live in a peaceful, unpolluted environment – away from the din and bustle.

“Buyers need to be more careful while looking at the documents, as there is every chance of them being forged. The land has to be encumbrance free and has to be a clear title. It is better to get a legal opinion before buying a plot,” says Ambigai Ramesh, a land promoter.

Experts in the field also feel that State Government's string of initiatives like cracking down on land grabbers, increasing the fees for registering power of attorney and trying to bridge the gap between guideline and market values will bring in a lot of trustworthiness in land dealing.

“To bring more credibility to the business, we at CREDAI try to solve the problems between property developers and buyers. We try to redress the genuine grievances of the buyers through an arbitration panel,” says Chandramouli.

There is no denying the potential that Madurai holds for property developers. With large corporate houses all set to enter the construction business in the city, one can expect the skyline of the temple town to change drastically in the coming years.